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*In December 2002, the [[Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments]], "a respected Washington [[think tank]], prepared a classified briefing commissioned by [[Andrew Marshall]], the Pentagon's influential director of the [[Office of Net Assessment]], on the future role of U.S. Special Forces in the global [[war on terrorism]]. One recommendation was that "oil funds be used to defray the costs of a military occupation in Iraq." [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0110-01.htm]
*In the December 13, 2002, briefing, deputy secretary of defense [[Paul Wolfowitz ]] said that the "'the cost of the occupation, the cost for the military administration and providing for a provisional [civilian] administration, all of that would come out of Iraqi oil.'" [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0110-01.htm]
*In April 2003, on the day that Baghdad fell, Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] said that "Iraq's oil production could hit 3 million barrels a day by the end of the year, even though the task force had determined that Iraq was generating less than 2.4 million barrels a day before the war." [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/international/middleeast/05OIL.html?th]
:At the time, neither interim oil minister [[Thamir Ghadhban]] nor American advisers in Iraq had "proposed a new structure for the industry, which might make it easier to argue that new people are needed" and the oil industry was still "working the old state-run model under which the ministry oversees the two companies -- [[Northern Oil]] and [[South Oil]] -- and other agencies in charge of exploration, pipelines and other equipment and exports," Banerjee wrote. [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/10/international/worldspecial/10OIL.html?th]
*A report produced by a Pentagon task force "secretly established" Fall 2003 "as part of the planning for the war" to study Iraq's oil industry "described the Iraqi oil industry as so badly damaged by a decade of trade embargoes that its production capacity had fallen by more than 25 percent." Contrary to the task force's findings, deputy secretary of state [[Paul Wolfowitz]] "told Congress during the war that we are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.'" [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/international/middleeast/05OIL.html?th]
==Competition for Iraq's Oil==
